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We say: We're feeling dried out

Posted: June 4, 2011 - 8:22pm

There used to be a saying around certain parts of Hilton Head Island: “It’s always raining in Bluffton.”

We’re guessing no one’s been using that saying too much lately.

There have been smatterings of storms over the past few days, most of which delivered a lot of thunder and lightning but very little in the way of sustenance for our quickly crisping lawns and severely wilted vegetable gardens.

And when they did provide some kind of downpour, it was momentary or nonexistent. One storm the other night brought rain to Buckwalter and Buckingham Landing, but not a drop to Simmonsville. When Simmonsville finally got its share the next night, the rain was over before the grass was even wet.

Over in Ridgeland, the situation is much the same. Karen Wilkins of Maranatha Farm Animal Rescue in Ridgeland wrote on the BT blogs, “We got one-tenth inch of rain but three hours of lightning and thunder, 45 dogs bellowing like a herd of buffalo until 2 in the morning, two lightning-struck trees down behind the main house and my desktop computer fried like an egg at the Waffle House. Rain did not even lay the dust. Pshaw!”

On the BT blogs, the question was raised about what the rules are these days for watering lawns. The first answer was to water as much as you can possibly afford. Currently, there aren’t any watering restrictions in place (although the S.C. Department of Natural Resources places us under “voluntary” restriction) but we’ve stated enough times in this space why you should throttle back on watering the yard.

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